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xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

Just to let everyone know who visits immigration, yelling at the officials does not help. There was some nutcase there around noon who was yelling "Who did this crap?" and "Am I going to have to leave Korea? Am I!? and "OH MY GOD!" "Who did this? I paid $400 and you're going to deny everything because of one piece of paperwork!?"

And my favorite, "Tell him I'm going to punch him in his head...no, tell him I'm going to punch him right in the mouth when I see him"

I'm not sure what his problem was, but god, some people think they can do whatever they want when they're at immigration. I had the unforutnate luck of sitting next to this idiot, and I was ready to smack him upside the head myself.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

Sounds similar to a guy (probably in his 50s) a couple years ago when my wife and I were at immigration to do some visa stuff. The guy seemed like he had knocked back a couple glasses beforehand and was yelling at the immi people. It was back when they first started having everyone fill out the one-page paper to do an educational background check. The guy refused to fill out the paper. He kept on shouting that he shouldn't have to do it. He was wearing some university's sweatshirt and kept pointing at the logo saying, "This was my school!" as if wearing a sweatshirt from there was proof.

Finally, my wife had enough and went over and asked him what was wrong. He started yelling at her; it was all I could do not to deck the guy and toss him out of the office. Still, my wife was patient (probably from all her years of having to deal with me... Wink

). He refused to fill out the info on the simple, one-page form. My wife did it for him. He then didn't want to sign it, but finally did. After he left, the immi people said something to the effect of, "It normally would have been just a formality, but now we're going to look at his credentials closely; he probably has a fake degree."

poet13 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject:

That was very decent of your wife. I wouldn't have had the time of day for him.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

bluelake, if I'd been your wife, I would have walked away from the guy who was yelling. She's a pretty brave person.

Frankly Mr Shankly · Joined: 13 Feb 2008

If you've never felt the urge to scream at or smack an immigration officer in the throat, you've not had the full Korean experience! There should be a picture of one of them under the entry for "capricious" in the dictionary.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

The thing was (from what I remember), he wasn't going to leave and just kept yelling. She figured the only way to get him to shut up and leave was to get the form filled out and pour him out the door.

My wife is an extremely considerate lady and will do what she can to help someone; in this case, however, she was doing it more for the immi people (Pohang branch--they're pretty good folks) and not the jerk.

xCustomx · Joined: 06 Jan 2006

Corky · Joined: 06 Jan 2004

His wife is hot too.

It's true.

Jeff's Cigarettes · Joined: 27 Mar 2007

Was it The Wicker Man....xcustomx he's trying to get a hold of you from the other board.

Yesterday · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Wacko at Seoul immigration

I was at Immigration just a couple of days ago...

There were lots of wacko's there - most of them Canadian..

Forward Observer · Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Location: FOB Gloria

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007

Dealing with IMMI sometimes makes me want to go wacko.

Frankly Mr Shankly · Joined: 13 Feb 2008

Jandar · Joined: 11 Jun 2008

He wants to buy you an Ally Kat tonight at Gecko's.

samcheokguy · Joined: 02 Nov 2008 Location: Samcheok G-do

I went to immigration...and they refused service in ANY language. I had the director of Gangwon education call them...and the were very polite. Korea, where power and status are everything.